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a series of laws that developed, promoted, and regulated English ships, shipping, trade, and commerce between other countries and with its own colonies
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England owed huge debt. Change from salutary neglect to mercantilism
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A tax put on the American colonies by the British in 1765. It said they had to pay a tax on all sorts of printed materials such as newspapers, magazines and legal documents.
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Act of British Parliament requiring local governments of the American colonies to provide the British soldiers with housing and food
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refer to a series of acts put on the colonists by the British
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The moment when political tensions between British soldiers and American colonists turned deadly. Patriots argued the event was the massacre of people perpetrated by the British Army, but loyalists argued that it was an unfortunate accident.
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Result of “taxation without representation”, Britain was unfairly taxing American colonists to pay for expenses incurred during the French and Indian War
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Consisted of 4 acts of measures meant to punish the port of Boston and the people of Massachusetts for the Boston Tea party
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Kicked off the Revolutionary War, The British fired first but fell back then the colonists returned the volley, this was the “shot heard ‘round the world”
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meeting of delegates from each of the thirteen American colonies. These delegates served as the government during the Revolutionary War
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assured the king that the colonists remained loyal subjects, not seeking independence, but attempting only to redress their grievances, signed by 48 members of congress
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A 47 page pamphlet written advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies
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Adopted by the Continental Congress, announced the separation of 13 North American British colonies from Great Britain
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Served as the first constitution of the United States, officially established the government of the union of the thirteen states
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uprising in Western Massachusetts and Worcester in response to a debt crisis among the citizenry and in opposition to the state government's increased efforts to collect taxes
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A convention that took place so delegates could rewrite the constitution and decide how America should be governed
